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Trading volume on PFTS up 47.0% to UAH 36 billion in March

Trading volume on PFTS up 47.0% to UAH 36 billion in March

In March 2024, the total trading volume on the PFTS stock exchange amounted to UAH 36 billion (147% of the level of March 2023/119% of the level of February 2024) or 69% of the total trading volume by securities trading organizers in Ukraine.

The PFTS stock exchange announced this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

In January-March 2024, the total volume of trading on PFTS amounted to UAH 90.2 billion (148% of the level of the same period in 2023), or 66% of the total volume of trading of securities trading organizers in Ukraine.

In the trading structure for March, the share of government bonds was 89.2% (UAH 32.1 billion), bonds of foreign states - 5.7% (UAH 2.1 billion), corporate bonds - 4.6% (UAH 1.7 billion), securities of collective investment institutions - 0.4% (UAH 0.2 billion), and shares of Ukrainian issuers - 0.003% (UAH 0.9 million).

In March, 11.3% of transactions were concluded in the "application market"; 81.6% of transactions in the "quotation market" (including address transactions); 7% of transactions in repo and risk-controlled REPO modes; and 0.1% of transactions in the auction mode.

In March 2024, 42 bidders at PFTS entered into transactions with 68 issues of securities (government domestic loan bonds - 43, shares of Ukrainian issuers - 1, corporate bonds of Ukrainian issuers - 7, bonds of a foreign state - 15).

In January-March 2024, 46 bidders at PFTS entered into transactions with 85 issues of securities (government domestic loan bonds - 48, government foreign loan bonds - 3, shares of Ukrainian issuers - 3, corporate bonds of Ukrainian issuers - 10, bonds of a foreign state - 21).

In March, for the first time this year, one public offering of corporate bonds took place on the Ukrainian securities market.

PFTS placed 100,000 pieces of series F interest bonds of NovaPay Credit LLC with a nominal value of UAH 1,000 with a maturity date of 03/19/2027 and an interest rate of 18% per annum.

Among the 43 issues of government bonds with which transactions were concluded in March, 18 issues were with repayment dates in 2024 (UAH 13.5 billion), 15 issues with repayment dates in 2025 (UAH 14.5 billion), 6 issues with repayment dates in 2026 (UAH 1.6 billion), and 4 issues with repayment dates in 2027 (UAH 2.5 billion).

Since July 26, the PFTS has begun trading in foreign currency denominated government domestic loan bonds.

In March 2024, the volume of exchange contracts with government bonds, executed in the currency of denomination, amounted to USD 187.3 million and EUR 23.4 million (23.2% of the total trading volume).

The PFTS stock exchange is one of the largest organizers of securities trading in Ukraine.

As of April 1, 2024, the number of PFTS stock exchange members admitted to trading was 52: 30 banks and 22 financial companies.

363 issues of securities were allowed to trade on PFTS, of which 116 issues of securities were on the exchange register.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in February 2024, the total trading volume on the PFTS stock exchange amounted to UAH 30.3 billion (181.5% of the level of February 2023/126.4% of the level of January 2024) or 74% of the total trading volume by securities trading organizers in Ukraine.

Since 1997, the PFTS index has been the official index of Ukraine in the S&P Emerging Markets.

PFTS is a corresponding member of the World Federation of Exchanges and a member of the International Association of Exchanges.